So. Well. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Nixon Library. My name is jim byron and i am the president , ceo of the Richard Nixon foundation. And id like to acknowledge a few special guests with this evening, beginning with tamara martin, director of the Richard Nixon president ial library and museum with the national archives. Tamara, thank you for being here. Id also like to welcome the mayor of the great of whittier, joe venturi. Thank you for being here, mr. Mayor. And i want to thank all of the president s Council Members and Associates Club members of the Richard Nixon foundation, who are in the this evening. Because it is your support allows us to put on Educational Programs like the one that you are seeing tonight. So thank you for your support of the nixon foundation. This evening, going to hear from paul carter, who has written a terrific new book, Richard Nixon, californias native son. This is one of the most important books on Richard Nixon to have been
Multisignatumultiagency unit. Larry craig, center from idaho nope for his wide stance, didnt like the information they were putting out, and he reached out and had unit abolished. We were able to sue and get their positions restored. But throughout all of the head of the center asked the question that haunted us, which was, who knew math coulding dangerous . So we employ a number of tools to help scientists suing under statutes where best available science is required, use of scientific integrity policies and even tools like the data quality act and industry sponsored law that allows us to file administrative challenges to Government Agency policies. Recently we were able to use this act to get, again, guided by agency toxicologist, the epa to drop safety assurance for artificial turf made with crumb rubber. We were able to persuade the white house to order overdue multiagency Risk Assessment on using solid waste as a play surface. [ applause ] thank you. And a number of our employees,
Responded back, because if we challenge the little ones, the regulatory agencies wont have time to get to the big ones. Now, thats a part of what were up against. But i wanted to just indicate that our strategies are and theyre successful. Our strategies are to create selfhelp mechanisms for the consumers like the lemon law. To make to always make progress. To get victims organized to show what it is. Today the u. S. Department of transportation will not release the names and addresses of consumers who are complaining about a defect. Why wont they do that . They say, well, the consumer doesnt want to have their name made public. Well, in fact, the consumer is writing to 20 different institutions, attorney generals, action lines, the center for auto safety, you name it, and yet the agency says they want privacy. What theyre doing is theyre trying to stamp out media access to victims to build a story around. So, victims are exceedingly important to our winning strategies. The other thing
This is a guy who is not afraid to talk to confront injustice. I think of something George Bernard shaw said you dont make progress by standing on guard. The fact that he used to be 65 will give you the idea of the fights i have been in. He has been more and additional to veterans for peace, he is a cofounder of the dont shoot coalition on the Michael Brown Police Killing in ferguson, missouri. He was an artillery love and based in clues and American Civil Liberties union and the Steering Committee of bringing them home now campaign. To introduce him and veterans for peace, we have a short video and then michael will be right here. [begin video clip] my name is barry ladendorf. I am the president of the veterans for national peace. Across the United States we have about 160 chapters and chapters in ireland and okinawa. We are forming a chapter in open our. We have a chapter in mexico. What we have learned in our collective experiences is that veterans is violence goes down. It doesnt p
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